Hey everyone!
Jason here, digital marketing consultant.
And in this Thrivecart review and demo, we're going to look at the top five reasons, Thrivecart
is awesome as an out of the box solution for a shopping cart software that allows you to
do upsells and down sells.
timestamp table of contents in the description, of course, along with some other reviews of
other funnel software that you might want to use in conjunction with Thrivecart or instead
of Thrivecart.
And that also includes a link to a playlist where we actually go through the top five
reasons.
Thrivecart isn't a great solution here.
Here we're going to be overly positive.
So the very first one number five, we're gonna go backwards here, is no code something that's
great about paying for a solution that isn't based on WordPress is you don't have to deal
with all the headaches of WordPress.
Now, if you still want a shopping cart on WordPress, Thrivecart still has you covered
because you can easily embed it on a WordPress page, or you can set it up as you can see
in this demo, like a popup, and this is something we actually do for our funnels.
So we use ThriveThemes for our sales pages, and then we use Thrivecart as a popup or an
embed in order to actually collect payments.
And the advantage of using something like Thrivecart, this also applies to Sam cart,
or if you're comparing it with ClickFunnels is because it's an out of the box solution.
You really don't have to deal with any code.
As easy as all of the WordPress based solutions say they are when it comes to checkouts, there's
just no comparison between something that's on WordPress since you have to worry about
configuring and SSL certificates, and then connecting the upsell and down sell pages,
which is just a giant headache.
Compared to something like Thrivecart, where everything has been thought of for you.
And you're literally just checking boxes and entering in your text in order to be good
to go.
Now, reason number four Thrivecart is awesome comes to the sales and analytics.
And before we dive into what you can do with the analytics, I just want to add the asterisk
that I always recommend that you set up your Facebook pixel, your Google conversion tracking
and your Google remarketing and of course, Google analytics, which is all something that
Thrivecart easily allows you to do.
They even have little boxes where you can add your codes based upon the actions that
are taken.
So you don't even have to worry about setting up custom triggers inside of your Google tag
manager account.
And if that made no sense that's okay, Thrivecart has you covered.
Now something that I really like about Thrivecart versus something like ClickFunnels and GetResponse
is that the sales data is actually all in one place.
Whereas the funnel based solutions, they have great statistics based upon your individual
funnel.
But if you want to see an overview of everything or dive into specific upsells or how your
reoccurring payments are doing that--, those solutions are kind of lacking.
Whereas Thrivecart, it's very easy to see your overarching view.
Then you can break things down by the type of payments or just see your month-over-month
reoccurring revenue.
And of course, funnel by funnel, funnel being the actual product checkout page, plus whatever
upsells you've added to it.
We'll get to that in a second.
And then also easily being able to see product by product as well.
So the analytics that you have, especially because you can integrate with other things
which we'll get to in a second, it makes it very, very easy to make sure that you have
a one place to go to see how your sales are doing across all of your products and services.
Now, speaking of integrations, that's number three, because integrations, when it comes
to a shopping cart solution is absolutely essential.
Simply being able to integrate with Stripe and PayPal is just kind of a bare minimum
that I actually don't give any shopping cart credit for, because you just need to have
that type of integration in order to easily be considered a shopping cart.
Now, something that a lot of page builders are doing now is they're adding checkout sequences.
Whereas you can collect payment information via PayPal and Stripe.
Lead pages does this GetResponse does this, and even ClickFunnels does this as well.
But something that differentiates ClickFunnels and Thrivecart and Sam cart versus some of
the other solutions out there is that it actually natively integrates with some membership platforms.
Now you need to triple check whether or not your membership software is actually going
to integrate with Thrivecart.
As of right now, they integrate with Optimized Press MemberMouse and MemberPress, but they're
adding more and via Zapier, you can kind of duct tape some solutions, but I highly recommend
no matter what shopping cart software you're looking at, you make sure that it natively
integrates with whatever you're using for your membership software.
Also, I think it works with teachable.
So something that's really, really nice in addition to all the payment integrations is
that when someone buys a membership product inside of Thrivecart, it's directly going
to talk to your membership software.
Something that not all solutions are able to do.
Some solutions say that they work with everything.
Then what they'll do on the backend is if someone purchases inside the shopping cart
software, then they'll say, okay, just put your registration link here.
And then someone has to click the registration link to make their account.
And most membership softwares allow you to do that.
Of course, the problem is if someone shares that link, then you could have a bunch of
people who didn't pay get into your membership website, unless you get fancy and start doing
expiring links.
And then that just kind of defeats the purpose of paying for a shopping cart software in
the first place, because they're not actually talking to each other.
Now, if that didn't make any sense, long story short, when someone purchases something and
Thrivecarts, they will be directly added as the right member to the right product, the
right membership level inside of your membership software, without having to do any stupid
workarounds in order to get it to work.
Now, reason number two Thrivecart is awesome, comes to the upsells.
And when you're looking for shopping cart software, you absolutely need the function
of upsells.
Otherwise you might as well just be paying $25 a month to PayPal because you just need
to collect credit card information on your website.
Now, something that's really nice about Thrivecart versus some of the other solutions out there
is that you actually set up the upsells and downsells separate from the checkout sequence.
So that means you only have to set up your upseller down, so once, and then you can add
it to as many sequences as you want.
Another feature that I really, really like about Thrivecart is the ability to essentially
upgrade or overwrite the previous transaction.
So let's go through a basic example to show what this means.
Let's say you're offering some sort of course, and it's a hundred bucks, right?
So they enter their credit card information.
They finished paying it's a hundred dollars.
And then the first upsell says, “Hey, if you want to get the”, you know, “deluxe
premium version of this it's $300”.
And if someone clicks, “Yes, I want that.”
Then what Thrivecart can do is overwrite the first transaction.
So they're just going to pay $300 instead of paying a hundred dollars plus the $300.
So it's a great way to offer upgrades via the upsells.
Something that I haven't seen in other shopping cart softwares.
Now, reason number one, Thrivecart is an awesome solution comes down to price, right?
What the heck is the price of Thrivecart?
Now, as of the recording of this video, it's still a onetime fee.
Of course, they keep saying that it's going to go month to month, but who knows?
So I'm going to give you the pricing, the comparison to other solution and then, how
to actually price it out reasonably.
Because it's not actually a onetime fee, but right now it's 690 bucks to purchase thrive
cards one time.
So it's very nice as you pay once and then you're done, there's no monthly fees.
There's no reoccurring payments each year.
Like you have on WordPress to keep a bit updated, but we'll get to the, little asterisk here
in a second.
So compare $690 one time versus a hundred dollars a month for ClickFunnels, a hundred
dollars a month for SamCart or $300 a year for something like CartFlows.
Now of course the asterisk here is that typically what companies like Thrivecart do, is they
have a onetime fee and they'll support it for a couple of years.
And then what they'll do is they'll either create a new version that you have to pay
for the upgrade or the worst case scenario is they wind up just abandoning the software
altogether, which has happened in the past.
So there is precedent for that.
So what you want to do when you're looking at the $690 is pretty much look at it as you're
going to have the software for at least two years.
So 350 bucks a year is pretty much what you can expect to pay for Thrivecart.
If it goes longer than two years, awesome, that's a bonus.
But if you're looking at price comparisons and just being reasonable, this company does
have to keep making money.
So there is a very high likelihood that in two or three years, they'll create a new solution
that you'll have to pay for an upgrade for, or they'll simply eventually stop supporting
it.
So three to five years is pretty much the max you could expect to get out of your six
or $700 with Thrivecart.
So thank you so much for watching.
I sincerely hope you got some value this video, and you got some ideas as to how Thrivecart
can be helpful and more importantly, how Thrivecart might not be helpful, make sure you hit that
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So you can compare and contrast and until the next key building the business you love.